#cruelty

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#get #law #nature #out #pervading

The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#enormous #except #gentle #haitian #haitian people

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#cruelty #intellectual #kid #kind #perhaps

Though you are three times more beautiful than angels, Though you are the sister of the river willows, I will kill you with my singing, Without spilling your blood on the ground. Not touching you with my hand, Not giving you one glance, I will stop loving you, But with your unimaginable groans I will finally slake my thirst. From her, who wandered the earth before me, Crueler than ice, more fiery than flame, From her, who still exists in the ether— From her you will set me free. ↗

— Anna Akhmatova

#unrequited-love #beauty

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#over #reform #sooner #trying #use

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#apply #christ #church #cruelty #desertion

What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty. ↗

— Jung Chang

#chinese #cruelty #further #just #level

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#cruelty #equals #feel #injustice #kind

People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

#back #believe #better #cruelty #life

As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed. ↗

— Morarji Desai

#eats #how #long #man #removed